In 2018, during the last presidential election in Russia, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier congratulated Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin. But now Steinmeier’s spokeswoman Cerstin Gammelin has it Daily Mirror said: “There will be no letter to Putin.” In a statement from the Federal President that she previously shared on Platform Steinmeier’s spokeswoman also wrote about the “so-called presidential elections in Russia.”
The Foreign Office chose a similar formulation on Sunday. The ministry wrote on An initial reaction from the White House in Washington also said that the election was obviously neither free nor fair.
Putin had his opponents thrown in prison and prevented others from running against him. Poland said there had been extreme repression against society, making free and democratic elections impossible. It was said from Ukraine that Putin would have to go to court in The Hague.
In the election, which was accompanied by allegations of manipulation and protests, the election commission gave Kremlin chief Putin a preliminary result of almost 87 percent on Sunday evening after counting almost a quarter of the ballot papers. Critics pointed out that this was only achieved through repression, coercion and fraud.